Alleged 'Mountain Man' burglar enters guilty plea Monday

11:58 PM,
Apr. 7, 2014

FILE - This photo released by the Sanpete County Sheriff's Office shows Troy James Knapp. Knapp, a backwoods recluse accused of burglarizing a string of cabins in remote areas of Utah is facing new burglary charges in a seventh county. Prosecutors in central Utah's Sevier County filed four charges of aggravated burglary and theft on Monday, March 31, 2014, against the 46-year-old Knapp, known as the 'Mountain Man.' He is now facing more than 40 charges in seven counties after officials say he lived in and ransacked remote cabins across Utah for years. He is accused shooting at a Utah Highway Patrol helicopter and aiming an assault rifle at other officers before surrendering in April 2013. Knapp is scheduled to take plea deal in federal court next week on federal firearm charges. The terms of the agreement are not disclosed, and federal prosecutors say no plea deal is finalized. (AP Photo/Sanpete County Sheriff's Office, File)

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Troy James Knapp, 46, entered a guilty plea Monday afternoon in Federal Court in St. George in relation to his charge in a federal indictment in October 2013 for assaulting a police officer with a firearm.

Knapp pleaded guilty to the court's charges that he shot at a Utah Highway Patrol helicopter and aimed an assault rifle at other law enforcement officers before surrendering in April 2013.

Knapp is known as the alleged "Mountain Man" cabin burglar who created fear among the cabin owner community with a series of weapons thefts and threatening notes. Law enforcement officials including a ...